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Forensic science covers the areas of science that are relevant to the law.
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Forensic science covers the areas of science that are relevant to the law. It is primarily involved in gathering scientific evidence proving that a crime has occured, and who has commited it. This evidence is acquired by using certain areas of biology, chemistry, analytical science and mathematics. Every single cell in our bodies contains DNA. 99.9% of human DNA is the same in everyone, meaning only 0.1% of our DNA is unique. This unique DNA is accounted for in the base pairs, this is more than enough to identify an individual. With the obvious exceptions of identical twins, whose DNA is 100% identical. Though all people, except identical twins, have different base pairs in their DNA, blood relatives also have similar DNA, than unrelated people. If the DNA profile from the evidence and a suspect are similar but not identical, then the relatives may be investigated further. In...
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